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Your insistence that there are no divisions in "christianity" has no historical context.

Just because today, in America, you can sit down with people of other faiths and manage to not kill each other doesn't mean that the various religions and sects aren't divided.

One example
...many persecuted Anabaptists settled in Münster, Westphalia. Hofmann’s disciples were attracted to the city by dramatic changes that occurred there in the early 1530s. Under the influence of the Reformer Bernhard Rothman, Anabaptist sentiment was strong enough there to elect an Anabaptist majority to the city council in 1533. This was followed, under the direction of Mathijs and John of Leiden, by the expulsion and persecution of all non-Anabaptists and the creation of a messianic kingdom under John of Leiden. The city was surrounded in 1534 by an army of Catholics and Protestants, which perhaps encouraged further reforms, including the common ownership of goods and polygamy, both with the declaration of biblical precedent. The city was captured in 1535, and the Anabaptist leaders were tortured and killed and their bodies hung in steel cages from the steeple of St. Lambert’s church. Source

And another
Although armed hostilities between Catholics and Protestants largely subsided after the 1921 agreement, violence erupted again in the late 1960s; bloody riots broke out in Londonderry in 1968 and in Londonderry and Belfast in 1969. British troops were brought in to restore order, but the conflict intensified as the IRA and Protestant paramilitary groups carried out bombings and other acts of terrorism. This continuing conflict, which lingered into the 1990s, became known as "the Troubles." Source

Harmony between the sects calling themselves "christianity" is a complete myth. Any truce that exists currently is completely due to the fact that genocide became unfashionable and the division of church and state.

The Lutherans slaughtered the baptists by the tens of thousands.

Even in this country, during the early years several people were executed for teaching baptist doctrine.

How about another...
Homosexuality is a grievous sin and I will never support it's practice.

Unfortunately that's not the way some sects see it...
Last month, members of an Atlanta congregation splintered off after their local church leaders decided to allow their ministers to perform gay unions on church property.
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"By their fruits ye shall know them." -Jesus

By their fruits ye shall know them ...

Matthew 7: 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. prophets Deut 13:3, Jer 23:16, Rom 16:17, Eph 5:6, Col 2:8, 2nd Pet 2:1, 1st John 4:1 sheep's Micah 3:5, 2 Tim 3:5 wolves Acts 20:29

16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Let's see, what were Joseph Smith's fruits:

Adultery with other men's wives

Peepstone divination

False Prophecies

Lies, even to his own congregation concerning his sexual deviances

False claims of scriptures from God

False stories of visions of God the Father Almighty

And entire false religion with rituals and signs lifted right out of Masonic lore

We could go on, but what's the point. The man is exposed by his fruits to be exactly what Jesus warned. And the founding principle of Mormonism is that the Holy Spirit left the body of faithing Christians for 1700+ years until Smith showed up ... thus mormonism denies the Holy Spirit Power that Jesus promised would never leave of forsake believers. So, the ultimate spirit of mormonism is the spirit of anitchrist. Oh they have a form of godliness, even look so clean and proper, but they deny the power thereof. 'From such turn away' was Paul's advice to Timotheus.

You are right, it would be much better for us to turn our back on those who follow similar doctrines or better yet the same “prophet” and Scripture..

As I have said more than once, the desires of man and the work of the evil one have taken advantage thought the entirety of Christian, as well as man's history. It does not diminish the fact that we share the same fundamental message.

We do more than just “get together and play nice” we serve Christ together in love and fellowship, sharing the same message of salvation.

Sorry if that is inconvenient for your purposes...